Improvement in automatic water-leaders



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HENRY RENSCH, OF QUI-NCM, ILLINOIS. Leners Parma No. 65,009, ma May 21, 18er.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:y

Be it known that I, HENRY Rensen, of Quincy, Adams county, State of Illinois, have invente-d eertainlnew l and useful improvements'in Automatic Water-Leaders and Conductors; and I do' hereby' ldeclare the following description and accompanying drawings are suiicient to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it r'nost nearly appertains to make and use my said invention or improvements without further invention or experiment. I

The nature of my invention and improvements consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination oi' certain devices which make a water-leader self-acting or automatic. In the accompanying drawings- A Figure l is a plan or top view'with most of the cover removed to show the interior.

Figure 2 is a scction'on the line ze of fig. 1. i A

In these drawiligA is the bottom of a box, B B the sides, and C the top, all which may be made of sheet metal or other material, in the form shown, or in such other form as will answer the purpose.: The top C is hinged across the middle for the convenience of opening itA to attend to the filter when the* filter is used in the box, To make ailter in this box I putA in thepartition D to divide the box `into two partsE and It, as shown in fig. 1, and make holes under and through the lower part of the partition for the water to pass through from E to F, as it is filtered by some iltering material in the part E. 'There isla pipe, G, in the top to conduct the water into the part E, when it flows through the filter or partition D into lthe part Il, and out through the pipe H into a tank or cistern below, provided` the valve I in the waste piped is shut. This waste pipe J is fastened in the bottom of the part F, and provided with a valve, I, as shown iniig. 2. 'lo close and held this valve I to its seat the linked rod K is fastened to it, and made to extend down into the cistern below, and has the weight L hung to its lower end to hold the valve down until the water rises in the cistern and floats the weight L, when the spiral spring N attached to the valve and to the top C draws up the valve and lets the water flow through the waste pipe J. The end of the pipe H isniadc so much higher than the Valve-seat that the watcr'ceases to ilow into the pipe after the valve is opened. Hence, as the rising of the water in the cistern floats and lifts the weight, and the spring draws up the valve, it renders the leader or conductor self-acting or automatic. To

protect the spiral spring I surround it with a case, I), 'made tigl1t,,except at the lower end, s that the water rises but little inthe case.

What I claim as my invention and improvement is The spring N, in combination withthe valve I, spring-ease P, discharge pipe J, and weight linked to the valve, all arranged substantially as described,

' HENRY RENSCH.

Witnesses:

GEORGE ERNST, A. W. BLAKnLr. 

